See TheRegister for story on how cloud washing / one time cloud deals are impacting comp - will be interesting to see how investors feel about this, not hard to see reading this story that oracle cloud revenues have been artificially inflated

This really resonated with me, I thought it deserved a thread of it's on for really good advice, which I personally will be taking: The advice to do the absolute minimum while looking for another job is very good advice. I wish I had been told this 7... — read more 

To all directors and above at Oracle, grow a set and let people know that are impacted so they can find employment. I have not seen one director let go, these sleaze seem to slime their way out of every lay off. Try being human, if you're male "don't... — read more 

Hey 3 Stooges, here's an idea, rather than delaying planned layoffs when the word gets out, why don't you just announce layoffs in advance like all other companies (yeah, I know all these other companies are run by mature adults ...). Just so you... — read more 

A few questions here for Oracle folks that went thru this already: How do they do layoffs? Call you in a room? Conference call? Who's present? How long does it last? Are you asked any questions? Can you go back to your desk pick up your stuff? Thanks... — read more 

That's right. Layoffs will be coming for SPARC HW and Solaris/SPARC Systems group. Word is out to folks to seek positions in other areas in the company. The only folks remaining will be for sustaining since they still need to support existing systems... — read more 

Any layoffs in hardware yet? Most of us didn't get FedEx notifications or suspect meeting invites and did not see boxes in our building either. So if it is today Oracle is going out of the way to keep it quiet. Or they are postponed to next week like... — read more 

SPARC business may have potential buyers. Several companies from China are interested in processor and high performance server business. The biggest stopper here is government regulation on high performance computing. They have to work around on this... — read more 

...ex-Sun employees would have been all laid off 7-8 years ago. If you are an ex-Sun employee, you should be thanking LE for his unwise decision to buy Sun and think he is "Tony Stark". "Software, Hardware, Complete" LMAO! LE saved your rear end and... — read more 

I have decided may be i should go back to my country after this layoff. I am on H1B. Does oracle offers to pay for air tickets to return back to home?? any experience from previous layoffs?

Not that i received a notification. I was wondering one should have received a notification if we were getting laid off tomorrow ?

Firing engineers will not have an immediate negative impact on revenue. It takes at least a few quarters or even years for the lack of a skilled workforce to be reflected in a lack of new sales. The people in charge have no intention of sticking... — read more 

Has to pay sales rep the $250k it was tying to screw her out off. See TheRegister. You're a loses LE!

Assuming the rumors about layoffs tomorrow are true, what should we be expecting today? Will managers be scheduling meetings for tomorrow to deliver the news? or will it be different this time given that a may be on a larger scale?

Spoke to my boss. Didn't mention I have 3 job offers. Just told him this stress is killing me and I'm hoping he ends my suffering and just gives me the package. The severance would be very nice right now. I have also maxed out my PTO.

based on Aria there is almost 900 employee in HW alone, not to mention other area that will be impacted. if the layoffs happen as expected this Thursday, I have no idea how Oracle will be under the radar this time.

Eat your heart out LE! SFDC blows past $10bn and past oracle. SFDC has more in real cloud revenues than oracle can manufacture in fake cloud revenues. You're a loser LE!

Probably not a good sign we can't submit timecards or vacation requests past the 25th of this month. Microelectronics.

So I'm in a in struggling pillar as an outside sales rep I foresee a PIP in my near future.. Are these delivered by HR? Also, when I am terminated how do you respond to my prospective employers if they ask if I left on my own will? Or do you only... — read more 

So, some analysts believe that there is hope for Oracle thanks to the cloud, as it is finally outpacing all the declines in legacy businesses. Not sure many would agree, but here's the link, if anybody is interested... — read more 

Is that even negotiable for RSUs if you're laid off within 30 days from the vesting date?

There is hope, there is work... Got laid off four months ago, was not expecting it. The severance was better than expected, 4 weeks for the first year of service, one week per year after that. Paid about 40% tax on it. Got a job at AWS, took me about... — read more 

After all this talent drain our cloud offerings for Fusion Apps are toast. No one left to even try and keep the lights on now. Things were bad before, but now it's completely game over. Anything that breaks will stay that way. There's no way we can... — read more 

Seems something is brewing. Hard to say for certain, but I have seen email this morning with what appear to be some doubt about next SPARC chip fate. Good luck to you all

Can one imagine a leader from sales organisation proclaiming himself as CTO of a geography? That too when one has more than 35000 employees in that geography who are part of core product development. This is there in India, Sales SC leader had taken... — read more 

Not much layoff action this past week. FY18 total remains 4,500; total since 6/1/2016 14,500. Big one coming this coming week. Say bye bye to oracle hardware

Another one posted this week: Technical Analyst 4-Support Oracle - Burlington, MA Preferred Qualifications Collaborate with colleagues on a worldwide basis on identifying product defects and driving them to resolution following Oracle's support... — read more 

My buddy and I were going over his quota and his average cloud deal. His average was about 40k, his quota is 4 million. Wont go into details to pin him down. But we figured to hit his quota he needs 100 cloud deals. 50 work weeks in a year, means he... — read more 

I just noticed that the update for August for ICS cloud release says there are only bug fixes for that release. Never seen that happen before. Anything happening in cloud area? Maybe some reorg going on? Layoffs coming?

This was posted this week on Indeed: Oracle Job Description As part of this Burlington, MA-based team of hardware and software professionals you will work within a sub-team that develops leading edge servers for use in both stand-alone and specific... — read more 

Can someone explain the 2 scenarios, lets say an employee has 10 years at Oracle. with WARN notice: 2 months (WARN) + 1 month (for first year) + 1 week for the rest of the 9 years so total : 3 months/9 weeks ( you will keep insurance+ salary during... — read more 

Rumor has it the Axe falls on August 24th again. Hardware RIF. Colorado will be hit hard as well as other locations. Sales gets cut as well for HW, then sales gets cut across the board the following week on Friday Sept 1st. Good luck to all. Get your... — read more 

Never have I seen a more tone-deaf "celebration" in my f---ing life.

Ive been looking through my stuff and i cant find anywhere what a redundancy package will consist of. Is this something which is pre determined and somewhere that i can read or is it something which is decided on a per employee basis and will only be... — read more 

My COBRA for United EPO, Dental, VSP = $805 per month for one person.

Its been out for sometime. The reason Oracle was slow to cloud was because of its sales force. Yes MH is hiring college kids. Yes he is laying off the old farts. Get a clue people and read the trade articles. If you are in sales you are part of the... — read more 

Friday after next one thing is certain... layoffs are coming. Who is it going to be? Last layoff was Thursday June 1. Like clock work managers got an email informing them to make mandatory meetings, and phone calls just hours before the layoff was to... — read more 

So everyone has heard about Sun folks layoff in US. Seemingly, since even higher ups are going , including "acting" directors, no one knows for sure (at least I don't). Hopefully Aug 24th is the last day of layoffs, we are practically a fraction of... — read more 

Hey, lets be positive. You have a job. You might not have a job in two weeks, and no one is talking about it. But, hey Oracle stock is up! Woo hoo!

The stock is at all time high - how do you guys (the ones who complain a lot) explain this? Given how badly LE messed up (in your view), how come that the company has a 200 Billion dollars market cap... One of the largest companies in the world... — read more